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Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a against a black background, each with distinct colors and features

Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a against a black background, each with distinct colors and features. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four characters
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right
  • black background

Dense Caption

Top-left: green character with red eyebrows, white eyes with black pupils, red mouth, and green neck. Top-right: light blue character with white eyes, black pupils, pink tongue, and blue hair. Bottom-left: teal character with white eyes, black pupils, yellow nose, red mouth, and green body. Bottom-right: yellow character with white eyes, black pupils, pink tongue, and yellow body. All characters have pixelated textures and are set against a solid black background. No visible text or motion.

Description

  • Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a against a black background, each with distinct colors and features

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100522145141660564624

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cartoon character
  • light blue cartoon character
  • teal cartoon character
  • yellow cartoon character
  • pixel art cartoon characters
  • cartoon characters
  • black background cartoon characters
  • no text cartoon characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a 2x2 grid against a black background, each with distinct colors and features.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cartoon characters

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • green character
  • red eyebrows
  • white eyes
  • red mouth
  • green neck
  • light blue character
  • pink tongue
  • teal character
  • yellow nose
  • yellow character
  • black background
  • pixelated texture
  • no text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100522145141660564624
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
e0746835e145e6ed
SHA-256
e0746835e145e6edc5f15f6bea23529dd2e3ef7c149de87af0cb9a3ec507bd7d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094518

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a against a black background, each with distinct colors and features

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,374 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 818

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
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  • light blue character (subject, 0.80)
  • teal character (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow character (subject, 0.80)

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  • green
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • light blue
  • pink
  • teal
  • yellow

Composition

  • four characters
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right
  • black background

Dense Caption

Top-left: green character with red eyebrows, white eyes with black pupils, red mouth, and green neck. Top-right: light blue character with white eyes, black pupils, pink tongue, and blue hair. Bottom-left: teal character with white eyes, black pupils, yellow nose, red mouth, and green body. Bottom-right: yellow character with white eyes, black pupils, pink tongue, and yellow body. All characters have pixelated textures and are set against a solid black background. No visible text or motion.

Description

  • Four pixelated cartoon characters arranged in a against a black background, each with distinct colors and features

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20100522145141660564624

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

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  • yellow cartoon character
  • pixel art cartoon characters
  • cartoon characters
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  • no text cartoon characters

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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cartoon characters

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  • light blue character
  • teal character
  • yellow character

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  • red mouth
  • green neck
  • light blue character
  • pink tongue
  • teal character
  • yellow nose
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  • pixelated texture
  • no text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20100522145141660564624
Archive entry
20100522145141660564624.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100522145141660564624.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100522145141660564624.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016